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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Raule (ex-Albrighton)	F217		John Brown, Clydebank, UK	12/1940	11.10.1941	2/1942 // 14.5.1959	stricken 12.1967
Brommy (ex-Eggesford)	F218		White, Cowes, UK	6/1941	12.9.1942	1/1943 // 14.5.1959	stricken 4.1965

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1050
Displacement full, t	1590
Length, m	80.5 pp 85.3 oa
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	3.73 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 328
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk 7, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	168

Standard scale images

Project history

British 'Hunt' Type 3 class escort destroyers. They were purchased in 1957, renamed and designated Type 138.

Modernizations

1962, Brommy: new armament and sensors consisted of 1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 1 x 1 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 107, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, KH-14/9, ASR10 radars, type 144 sonar

1964, Raule: new armament and sensors consisted of 1 x 1 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 107, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 1 x 4 - 375 Bofors ASWRL, KH-14/9, ASR10 radars, M5/1, M9/3 sonars

Naval service

Raule and Brommy served as TS for underwater weapons.